Chef Innovation Agentique et d'Affaires / Head of Agentic & Business Innovation

Do you thrive on leading complex transformations, and are you an expert in innovation management, steering technology funnels, and operationalizing advanced technologies and artificial intelligence to redesign enterprise workflows? Do you excel at driving organizational transitions toward autonomous process orchestration, leading agile delivery teams, and scaling human expert know-how into cutting-edge agentic systems? Then this job is for you!

The A220 commercial aircraft Programme is seeking an impactful leader to join our Digital & Business Transformation team based in Mirabel (Québec, Canada).

Operating as an agile innovation "Speed Boat" that is redefining our operating model and driving a paradigm shift by 2030, our team fosters an adaptive, collaborative culture to modernize our end-to-end ways of working and catalyze strategic value creation through emerging technologies.

Your role as Head of Agentic & Business Innovation will be to co-architect and steer Airbus Canada's value acceleration strategy. You will lead the strategic management of the innovation funnel and the transition of our core operational and business workflows into a model of autonomous process orchestration, leveraging Agentic AI, assistive devices, and advanced industrial automation to deliver major efficiency breakthroughs through 2030.

Your working environment:

The A220 commercial aircraft Programme is headquartered in Mirabel, in the greater Montreal area, where the vibrant city of Montreal is just a stone's throw away. Known for its peaceful and safe environment, the region offers a high quality of life for younger or experienced professionals and families, perfectly balancing career opportunities and outdoor activities that makes it a truly special place to call home.

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, annual bonus, group insurance plan, pension plan and share purchase plan.
• Work / Life Balance: A hybrid working policy (based on operational needs), on-site cafeterias and a highly competitive holiday policy.
• Wellbeing/Health: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Discount Program, on-site Medical Service, access to a public shuttle service between Laval (Montmorency metro station) and Mirabel, and a carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

Your challenges:

• Innovation Funnel & Supplier Strategy: Oversee strategic relationships with technology partners, AI OEMs, and emerging tech providers to synchronize the internal development roadmap with global trends and integrate frontier capabilities (assistive wearables, advanced industrial automation) into our manufacturing environment.
• Strategic Delivery & Roadmap Alignment: Translate high-level business and technology strategies into structured, finance-aligned roadmaps, ensuring complex process re-engineering projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with overall program budgets.
• Agentic AI Transition Leadership: Steer the organizational transition toward an agentic model across the business, ensuring strategic alignment to deliver on our target AI-enabled organization vision.
• Systemic Re-Engineering (AI-First): Direct and empower agile transformation squads to redesign end-to-end workflows, shifting activities from manual execution to autonomous orchestration, positioning digital agents as trusted "co-pilots."
• Cognitive Resilience & Governance: Govern multi-agent interaction models and enterprise oversight frameworks to prevent systemic conflicts, detect behavioral drift in autonomous systems, and maintain long-term operational trust and safety.
• Tacit Knowledge Capture ("Agent Gym"): Sponsor and scale the "Agent Gym" strategy to capture undocumented practices from human operational experts and transform them into structured, scalable intelligence.
• Agentic Experience (AX) Alignment: Partner with the Engagement & Adoption team to govern interact